[alsa-devel] UCM/DAPM - saving power when idle?

[David Henningsson]

I don't deal much with ASoC, so sorry if I'm missing something obvious 
here...

When a certain use case is activated, that would then activate some DAPM 
widgets, causing the codec to consume more power. So, we should 
essentially avoid this unless we're actually playing back/recording. 
But, why isn't there a "disable all use cases" command, or possibly an 
"idle" command? (That, essentially, e g pulseaudio should set whenever 
playback/recording stops)

Or; the option would be that the codec is actually powered down, but 
only activates itself when there is a stream; but this looks like it 
could cause problem with loopback paths (e g listening to FM radio, 
where there are no streams passing through CPU/main memory).

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David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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